Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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